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SMART Goals. 6 th Grade Smart Goals #2. Microsoft, 2011. Objectives. Today’s objectives are to: Review what we learned about setting goals before Learn about setting SMART goals Develop SMART goals to help you achieve your dreams. Pre-Test. What does the acronym “SMART” stand for?
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SMART Goals 6th Grade Smart Goals #2 Microsoft, 2011
Objectives • Today’s objectives are to: • Review what we learned about setting goals before • Learn about setting SMART goals • Develop SMART goals to help you achieve your dreams
Pre-Test • What does the acronym “SMART” stand for? • Is the following goal a SMART goal for a 6th grader? I will fly to the moon tomorrow. Explain why or why not. • What is one of your SMART goals for 6th grade?
Review: Why Set Goals? • When do you set goals for yourself? • Why do you set goals? • How does setting goals change your performance or how hard you work on something?
Review: 10 Reasons to Set Goals • Goals help you be who you want to be. • Goals stretch your comfort zone. • Goals boost your confidence. • Goals give your life purpose. • Goals make you more self-reliant. • Goals encourage you to trust your decisions. • Goals help you turn the impossible into the possible. • Goals prove that you can make a difference. • Goals improve your outlook on life. • Goals lead to feelings of satisfaction. Bachel, B.K. (2001).
Review: Types of Goals • Short-term goals are ones that you will achieve in the near future (e.g., in a day, within a week, or possibly within a few months). • Long-term goals are ones that you will achieve over a longer period of time (e.g., one semester, one year, five years, or twenty years). Weinstein & Awalt, 2001
SMART Goals • SMART Goals are: • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Relevant • Timely Microsoft, 2011 Adapted from Doran, 1981
Become a Goal Getter! • Review your lifeline- • What is the dream you most want to accomplish in your future? • Create a SMART goal for that dream. • Here’s an example.
Dream Example • Dream: to be a doctor • What is something I need to do to get there? • I will need to go to college and then medical school • I can write a long-term goal for graduating from medical school Microsoft, 2011
SMART Goal Example • What do I want to accomplish? • I want to graduate form medical school. • How will I know when I achieved my goal? • I will graduate. • Is this goal realistic? Do I have the right tools? • If I work hard, take the right classes, have support from my friends, family, and teachers, I know I can do it. • Why is this goal important? • I can’t become a doctor unless I graduate from medical school. • When can I achieve this goal? • I’m in 6th grade - I have 6 years of middle and high school, 4 years of college, and 4 years of medical school. • I can achieve this goal in 14 years
SMART Goal Example My goal: • I will graduate from medical school in 14 years. Microsoft, 2011
Your SMART goal • On the back of your SMART goal paper, create a long-term goal that aligns with your dream that follows the SMART goal requirements. • When you and your partner have completed your SMART goals, pair up. • Check each other’s goals. Do they fulfill the criteria? Can your partner answer all of the questions on the handout?
Directions • Now, write 3 short-term SMART goals (that you can accomplish this semester) that will help you reach your long-term goal. • Look at your past goals. Have you accomplished them? • If so, great job! • If not, are they still appropriate goals? • Turn them into SMART goals! • If they’re no longer appropriate, come up with new goals.
Pair and Share • Pick a partner • Share your 3 short-term goal • Describe how each goal is • Specific • Measurable • Achievable • Relevant • Timely
Post-Test • What does the acronym “SMART” stand for? • Is the following goal a SMART goal for a 6th grader? I will fly to the moon tomorrow. Explain why or why not. • What is one of your SMART goals for 6th grade?
Review • SMART stands for: • Specific, Measureable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timely • Discuss: What some of the SMART goals you set for this semester? • Next class we will talk more about achieving your goals and making your goals even “SMARTER”
References • Doran, G. T. (1981). There's a S.M.A.R.T. way to write management's goals and objectives. Management Review, 70(11), 35-36. • Microsoft Office Images. (2011). Retrieved from http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/